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What suppression of 1st Amendment rights? People signed a PUBLIC document. The problem is that the public (naively, and less so nowadays) views the news media as objective, and publicly signing a recall petition is not an indication of objectivity.

Also - no reason to bring up Sykes here, unless liberals want to broaden their minds. Sykes is not a journalist.

Those documents should NOT be public! Are your votes public? Waay to much opportunity for intimidation and harassment in the workplace. Good thing Dems will get back in charge soon because that is the ONE piece of legislation I will be pushing!

This is becoming a witch hunt. Just as I feared, this "verify the recall" is just an excuse to harass people with whom you disagree. Apparently trying to get people fired from their jobs for having an opinion is in vogue now.

Had I known my name and address were going to be posted, so any conservative with their beloved guns could come harass me, I sure as hell wouldn't have signed.

This is ridiculous. I'd say the solution would be to make petitions private, but then the righties would be screaming about that, claiming that it was some grand conspiracy where "Mickey Mouse" was written over and over again. So the petitions are made public, and now they're complaining that a SPORTS WRITER signed it? Seriously?

So this is "journalistic integrity?" Officially endorsing Walker and reprimanding any staffer who signs a recall petition against him?

Keep the petitions private????!!?! Are you crazy? There's already a lack of verification in this process. Privatizing allows a small group with an ax to grind to fill out forms endlessly until they have enough for a recall.

So isnt signing a petition on par with voting? Both political activities? And if thats the case..does that mean journalists cant vote? Just wondering. Finally..should everyones votes be published also...so we can look up on our neighbors and see how they voted? Does anyone see the unconstitutionality of all of this or is it just me

The Supreme Court justices sit on their hands when at a state of the union address by our President. People search every piece ever written by a nominee, looking for a sign that they have an apparent bias. All this is done so we, the people, have some faith that these people will judge in an impartial manner. Journalists have long been given special rights so that they can be the eyes and ears of the public. It is called freedom of the press; but with these rights, come responsibilities. You have the responsibility to conduct yourself in a way that avoids the taint of bias. The media has enough of a problem trying to be fair without having some of their “journalists” waiving a flag for one side or another.

So NOW the stations get all ethical, stations like WTMJ? It had no problem in past elections with Chuckie Sykes publicly being a donor to Republican candidates and speaking for them at their events. That all was public, just like the petitions; heck, Sykes promoted the events on his show, so that was publicity gratis from the Journal Company -- which means that it made a "gift in kind" donation to Republicans, too.

So why now? Obviously, because the Journal management is biased toward Republicans. But that's okay. It's only if lower-level employees sign a petition that there's a problem. As if the ethics code is the issue for management of any of these stations.

This has to be a troll, right? Imagine how horrible life would really be for this guy if he actually believed that the Journal is biased toward Republicans. Look at the story about the guy in Slinger shooting that black boy for proof.

I happen to believe that public viewing of recall petitions should be unlawful. This is just waaay to close to actual voting and we all know voter intimidation is against the law. On the other hand we could set up a tracking device to keep track of all people that wish to view the signatures which would also become public knowledge. In that case it would equal out the intimidation aspect of it and make it fair. It would also allow for employees to check to see if their employer is checking up on them which could also be construed as intimidation.

OH PLEASE. You don't need to scour the "verify the recall" list to know what side of the political arena some of Milwaukee's so-called, "ubiased" newscasters fall. You need only listen to their tone of voice and watch their facial expressions on the TV news. And these are the people in front of the camera. I find that WAY more "overt" than someone signing a recall petition. The Verify the recall people are foolish if they think we believe for one second that the searchable, on-line list was meant to simply confirm the validity signatures. This story is another example of how they're getting exactly what they wanted: more division, more discord, more conflict. And the division, discord and conflict amount to nothing productive, unifying or valuable to our society.